Essay

 1        8| mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses. So
 2       11|           of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require
 3       11|         though thereby they offer age to scorn. Certainly great
 4       28|         professed arms but for an age, have, notwithstanding,
 5       28|           that greatness, in that age, which maintained them long
 6       29|          are owing a man till his age. Discern of the coming on
 7       29|        the same things still; for age will not be defied. Beware
 8       35|           is the decay of a whole age. Honor hath three things
 9       41|                      OF YOUTH AND AGE~A man that is young in years,
10       41|        side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition
11       41|   business. For the experience of age, in things that fall within
12       41|     neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult
13       41|     because the virtues of either age, may correct the defects
14       41|         be learners, while men in age are actors; and, lastly,
15       41|         have the pre–eminence, as age hath for the politic. A
16       41|         more it intoxicateth; and age doth profit rather in the
17       41|           grace in youth, than in age; such as is a fluent and
18       41|       becomes youth well, but not age: so Tully saith of Hortensius,
19       42|           dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance;
20       53|       Plinius Secundus, borne her age so well, if it had not been
21       57|         necessity that once in an age or two, they discharge a
22       57|           flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and
23       57|          a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts
24       57|      reduced; and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry and
25       58|         necessity that once in an age or two, they discharge a
26       58|           flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and
27       58|          a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts
28       58|      reduced; and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry and